COVID-19 Update

The Columbia County Department of Health released its numbers late yesterday afternoon, and Gossips is just getting around to sharing them. Between Friday and Saturday, there were fourteen new cases of COVID-19. The number of active cases reported on Saturday was six fewer than on Friday, from which it can be inferred that, from Friday to Saturday, twenty county residents were determined to have recovered from the virus. There were 23 more county residents in mandatory quarantine on Saturday than on Friday, but the number hospitalized remained the same. None of those hospitalized was in the ICU. There has not been a death from COVID-19 reported in Columbia County since Monday, September 27.

The New York Forward dashboard is reporting a positivity rate from Friday to Saturday in Columbia County of 3.2 percent and a seven-day average of 3.2 percent. By comparison, the positivity rate for the same 24-hour period in the Capital region was 3.0 percent and the seven-day average was 3.7 percent.

A year ago today, the CCDOH reported 9 new cases of COVID-19. The total number of cases was 574, and the number of active cases was 13. There were 20 county residents in mandatory quarantine, and 1 was hospitalized and in the ICU. The total number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 at this time last year was 37.